Examples of DRE

(in version 2.3 of
strict DRE)

A larger sample of DRE, a transcription of Lewis Carroll's
"The Hunting of the Snark", may be downloaded here.

The Stàr (H.G. Wells)

It wôz on the first
day ov the néw year that the anouncement wôz
máde, aulmóst símultánéôusly
frôm three obzervatòries, that the mótion ov
the planet Neptúne, the outermóst ov aul the
planets that wheel about the sun, had becôm vèry
êratic. A retàrdátion in its velocity
had bên suspected in December. Then a faint, remóte
speck ov líet wôz discôvered in the
réjon ov the perturbed planet. At first this did not
cauz âny vèry greyt excítement.
Sciëntific peaple,
however, found the intellijence remàrkable enuff, éven
befòre it becáme knówn that the néw body
wôz rapidly grówing làrjer and bríeter, and
that its mótion wôz quíte different frôm the
òrderly progrêss ov the planets.

The Láte Aríval (Bob Boden)

Bob strólled up the
path. Hé wôz láte and wôz considering
hiz alibí. Hé lissened tu the ôther
càrs in the street, hedding hóme. The dòg, with
paw raized, greeted him at the dòr. Molly coûd aulways
tell when
hé aríved. Shé wôz a faithful creatjur, and
the sensitivity ov that nóze wôz not a myth.
The house wôz quiët. Hé looked down at the
vínyl tíle. It coûd stand sôm polish
but hé woûd rezist the impulse tu complain.

Hé saw hiz fàther in the gàrden near the fence but
didn't bother tu caull him. Hé wôz
obvìôusly prepâring tu mów the lawn.
Hé coûd see the neybor's cow in the meddów
and the dense woods béyond. It seemed
a trivìal matter but hé aulways looked tu see if
thâre wôz ânything on the kitchen táble.
Hiz wífe míet wríte a nóte. Thâre
wôz a
néw novel thâre, probably hers. It had a
pecúlyar symbol on the côver. The títle sed
sômthing about néurons. Hé didn't knów
whôt that wôz about but simply didn't câre.

Hé decíded tu remùve the lábel now
frôm the packaj hé wôz carrying. Hé
hóped that Mirtle woûd not harass him about the
còst ov the néw fur coat hé had bawt her.
Hé had a fairly good replý. At least it wôz
paid fòr. And the first ov the year wôz
aulmóst hêre and the air wôz cóld.

Hé found the páper pàrtly ópen, óver
a chair. It had rained in the mòrning. The páper
òffen got wet. Hé turned the
rádìó on but didn't câre fòr the
singing.

But in a làrjer sense, wé can not dedicáte -
wé can not consecráte - wé can not hallów -
this ground. The bráve men, living and ded, hoó
struggled hêre, hav consecráted it, fàr abôv
our poor power tu add òr detract. The wôrld
will little nóte, nòr lòng remember, whôt
wé say hêre, but it can never forget whôt they did
hêre. It iz fòr us the living, rather, tu
bé dedicáted hêre tu the unfinished
wôrk which they hoó fawt hêre hav thus fàr
só nóbly advanced. It iz rather fòr us tu
bé hêre dedicáted tu the greyt
task remaining befòre us - that frôm théze onnored
ded wé táke increased devótion tu that cauz
fòr which they gáve the last fûll mezjur ov
devótion - that wé hêre hýly rezòlv
that théze ded shall not hav díed in vain - that this
nátion, under God, shall hav a néw birth ov freedom
- and that gôvernment ov the peaple, bý the peaple,
fòr the peaple, shall not pèrish frôm the erth.

Industrìal Dizeaze (Màrk Knopfler)

Waurning líets àr flashing down at Quolity Contról
Sômbôdy threw a spanner and they threw him in the
hóle
Thâre'z rùmors in the loading bay and anger in the town
Sômbôdy blew a whissle and the wauls cáme down
Thâre'z a meeting in the boardroóm, they'r trýing
tu tráce the smell
Thâre'z leaking in the woshroóm, thâre'z a sneak in
Personel
Sômwhâre in the corridor, sômwunn wôz
hird tu sneeze
"Goodnêss mé, coûd this bé Industrìal
Dizeaze?"